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The Urgency to Engage with Addiction

22 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video ("The Urgency to Engage with Addiction") in which Amber Hollingsworth and another speaker describe how addiction creates an urgent, consuming distractedness. They characterize addictive thinking as a 24/7, all-consuming process (planning, scheming, hiding) that makes normal activities—conversations, school, work—harder over time as the urgency grows louder and the person becomes less able to function or weigh decisions.

Here's what we got so far. We got this urgency, which creates this distractedness. Basically, it's.
Like they might carry a.
Conversation on with you, but really they're.
Thinking about something else. Planning, scheming, hiding.
This whole addictive thinking process is like a full time.
Job 24 7. It's all consuming.
And while.
All that's going on, you.
Try to pretend like everything's regular. You try to have regular conversations with people for a long time. You try to go to school, you try to go to work.
You try to do the things.
As the addiction progresses, you become less.
And less able.
To do those things. You become less.
And less able to function in.
Life because that urgency just gets louder.
And the volume gets turned way up. Mixed with the.
Ability to weigh the.
Pros and cons go way down.